"Royal Society of Literature"

Salman Rushdie male, 62 years old: al qaeda target, the West, the east, Western world, magical realism, ayatollah…Supreme Leader of Iran, postcolonial literature, Critic of Islam, Post-colonial literature, Alumni of King's College, Cambridge; Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...

Andrew Motion male, 57 years old: FRSL, RoyalSocietyofLiterature, Academic of Royal Holloway, University of London, Royal Holloway, University of London, Alumni of University College, Oxford, University College, Oxford…Academic of the University of East Anglia, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Arts Council of England, point of view, invasion of Iraq; Andrew Motion, FRSL, (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who is the current Poet Laureate. His poems are known for...

Caryl Phillips male, 51 years old: Yale University, Dancing in the Dark, A State of Independence, Crossing the River, Queen's College, Oxford, The Final Passage…The Nature of Blood, RoyalSocietyofLiterature, Professor of English, Director of Initiatives; Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. He is now professor at Yale...

Peter Ackroyd male, 60 years old: RoyalSocietyofLiterature, the observer, London Psychogeographical Association, Psychogeographers, English historical novelist, double first…Albion The Origins of the English Imagination, Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, The Diversions of Purley, University of Cambridge, english literature; Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949, London) is an English author. Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm and...

Penelope Lively female, 76 years old: obe, Carnegie Medal, Order of the British Empire, RoyalSocietyofLiterature, Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford, Whitbread Book Awards…The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Council of Goldsmiths College, Board of the British Library, Board of the British Council; Penelope Lively CBE (born March 17, 1933) is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has...

Paul Muldoon male, 58 years old: slant rhyme, half rhyme, from County Armagh, pun, Irish Times, Hertford College, Oxford…Professor of Poetry, Fellow of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, RoyalSocietyofLiterature, University of St Andrews, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Paul Muldoon is a poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or...

William Heinemann male, deceased (1920): covent garden, publishing house, heinemann, publishing, RoyalSocietyofLiterature, Surbiton; William Heinemann was the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London. He was born in 1863, in Surbiton, Surrey and died in London in 1920....

Ruth Padel female, 63 years old: British women writer, Women poet, Zoological Society of London, Independent on Sunday, John Hunter, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem…London Zoological Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, UK Poetry Society, Fellow of the London Zoological Society, Poetry Book Society; Ruth Sophia Padel (born 8 May 1946) is a British classical scholar, poet and journalist. She came to prominence with a poetry column in the London...

George Szirtes male, 61 years old: poet, hungarian, Euston Manifesto signatories, British, married, Norwich School of Art…Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, RoyalSocietyofLiterature, university of east anglia; George Szirtes [pronounced:Sirtesh] (born 1948) is a Hungarian-born poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language...

Jan Morris female, 83 years old: British, World War II, conundrum, Old Lancing, University of Wales, The Times…Order of the British Empire, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, RoyalSocietyofLiterature, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, university of glamorgan; Jan Morris CBE (born James Humphrey Morris on 2 October, 1926) is a British historian and travel writer. Morris was born in Clevedon, Somerset,...

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